Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology

Luca Fiorito received his PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research in New York and is currently Professor at the University of Palermo. His main area of interest is the history of American economic thought in the Progressive Era and the interwar years. He has published many works on the contributions of the institutionalists and on the relationship between economics and eugenics. Scott Scheall is Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Social Science in Arizona State University’s College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, as well as Project Director for the History of Economic Thought in Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Economic Liberty. He has published extensively on topics related to the history and philosophy of the Austrian School of economics. Scott is the author of F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics (Routledge, 2020). Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He specializes in the history and methodology of economics, studying the interplay of social, political, and economic ideas in early modern England, and the institutionalization of economics in Brazil during the postwar era. He has published several papers on these and related themes in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, and is also the co-editor of The Political Economy of Latin American Independence (Routledge, 2017). 

Part I: A Symposium on Sir James Steuart: The Political Economy of Money and Trade; Guest edited by Rebeca Gomez BetancourtChapter 1. Sir James Steuart: Money, Trade and Politics; Rebeca Gomez Betancourt
Chapter 2. Steuart, Smith and the “System of Commerce”; Maurício C. Coutinho and Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak 
Chapter 3. Construction of James Steuart’s Monetary Theory; Yutaka Furuya
Chapter 4. On the Dangers of Public Credit for France’s Monarchy: How an Old Warning Sheds a Certain Light on 1789?; Pierre de Saint-Phalle 
Chapter 5. Sir James Steuart on the “Infancy of Banking”: Financial System and Economic Development; José M. Menudo 
Chapter 6. An Unorthodox Genealogy on the Relation between the Markets for Currency Exchange and Credit in Steuart, Thornton, Tooke, and Keynes (1923); Ghislain Deleplace 
Part II: Essays
Chapter 7. Advising the 'Devil' or 'Preaching ' to the Public? The Controversy over Milton Friedman's 1975 Visit to Chile; Andrew Farrant
Chapter 8. Employment and Equilibrium: The First Comprehensive Answer by Pigou to Keynes; Massimo Di Matteo
Chapter 9. Paradox? What Paradox? On a Brief Correspondence between Leonard Savage and Karl Popper; Carlo Zappia